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Apple CEO & Management Suggestions (20)
(Jot down the numbers of your 3 favorite suggestions and VOTE! at the end of this page)
(Not necessarily listed in order of
importance)
Apple
needs to get rid of the
suits! Put in a CEO and top execs with creative vision like Steve Jobs
& The Woz had.
- Entered 7/97. #1 - Vote=1 - THANKS
Apple!
Apple
needs to stop the layoffs!
If you cut anymore you will sacrifice employee loyalty, product quality
and company reputation! If you want to cut when things get rough- start
with the salary and bonuses of the top execs - THANKS
Steve! - THANKS
Apple! ("APPLE CUTTING EXECUTIVE PERKS" CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP)
- "Steve Jobs, calling on the company's 'egalitarian, entrepreneurial'
heritage, is axing sabbaticals, ending cash bonuses for executivies and
cutting severance pay. .." - Entered 8/97,
and work your way down! (That's the way they do it in Japan- They accept
responsibility for company problems from the top down- They feel management
decisions affect the lack of prosperity more than worker productivity.-
And who can argue with that?) - Entered 7/97.
#2 - Vote=1
Apple
needs to ask all
management and production employees to accept suspension of bonuses - THANKS
Steve! - THANKS
Apple! ("APPLE CUTTING EXECUTIVE PERKS" CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP)
- "Steve Jobs, calling on the company's 'egalitarian, entrepreneurial'
heritage, is axing sabbaticals, ending cash bonuses for executivies and
cutting severance pay. .." - Entered 8/97,
and a "variable" salary - One that is hooked into the profitability
of the company, and varies. Designed to prevent layoffs, move-outs to cheap
labor arenas, and division close-downs. Survival of the company is now
of the highest priority. - Entered 7/97. #3 -
Vote=1
Apple
needs to encourage democratic
management / decision making, encompassing all personnel, at all Apple
Computer operations. This will help Apple blossom into a new company with
an image of vision and inspiration both in the minds of its employees,
and the minds of the public - truly a democratic - people's company.
(Wowsa!! Wouldn't that be a great democracy based free-world
innovation for America's favorite company? - Ed.) - Entered
7/97. #4 - Vote=1
Apple's
new CEO needs to take
a page from Lee Iacocca's strategy - Cut bonuses - THANKS
Steve! - THANKS
Apple! ("APPLE CUTTING EXECUTIVE PERKS" CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP)
- "Steve Jobs, calling on the company's 'egalitarian, entrepreneurial'
heritage, is axing sabbaticals, ending cash bonuses for executivies and
cutting severance pay. .." - Entered 8/97 and/or
work for one year without a salary., just to inspire the employees!
- Entered 7/97. #5 - Vote=1
Apple
needs to work closely
with Hewlett-Packard, or Casio, or someone else who understands power management
technology. When was the last time anyone got more than 60 minutes out
of a powerBook battery?
- Entered 7/97. #6 - Vote=1
Apple
needs to merge with Nintendo
- This moves the brand into the consumer area, and under one management
team. - Entered 7/97.
#7 - Vote=1
Apple
needs to get rid of all
the well-dressed politically correct engineers and keep the ones that can
fix the things wrong with the Mac OS.
- Entered 7/97. #8 - Vote=1 -
THANKS Steve! THANKS
Apple! As reported in the Nov. '97 issue of MacAddict magazine sj has "brought
in top-notch software and hardware engineers to replace Chief Technology
Officer Ellen Hancock." Among those brought over to Apple from NeXT
was Avie Tevanian (was vice president of engineering at NeXT), and Jon
Rubinstein (the hardware engineer who designed NeXT's ground-breaking black
cude). - Entered 3/98.
Apple
needs to retain their
Apple Fellows at all costs. Because of personnel leaving, there has been
a serious drain in Apple's think tank department.
- Entered 7/97. #9 - Vote=1
Apple
needs to solidify the
management team. Pushing people out or allowing them to leave does not
inspire those remaining.
- Entered 7/97. #10 - Vote=1
Apple
needs to keep its human
factors team strong and give it an even larger role, as it used to have
when Tog was there. Human factors and usability are what distinguishes
the Mac OS from its competitors.
- Entered 7/97. #11 - Vote=1
Apple
needs to consider Jim
"Blue Ninja" Cannavino for Apple CEO. He headed IBM's OS/2 efforts
before Gerstner and was a very good marketer. I had much exposure to him
when I ran a large Intel-based LAN and was trying for OS/2 on the desktop
rather than Windows. Since Microsoft is now trying to lock Netscape out
with its built-in defaults for IE in Windows 98, it would make sense for
Netscape to hook up with Apple and do the same in Rhapsody. Since Rhapsody
will run on all platforms, this would seem to be a good solution for both
companies. - Entered
7/97. #12 - Vote=1
Apple
needs Guy Kawasaki for
CEO. - Entered 7/97.
#13 - Vote=1
Apple
needs to restructure
the board of directors. Get some people in there that are more customer
focused. - Entered
7/97. #14 - Vote=1 - THANKS
Steve! - THANKS
Apple! As reported in the Nov. '97 issue of MacAddict magazine sj has "Revamped
Apple's board of directors." In an agressive move, Jobs ousted much
of Apple's previous board of directors, including Mike Markkula, the long-time
member who had previously wielded strong control over the board. Current
members include an impressive mix of industry leaders with experience in
marketing, sales, finance, company turn-arounds, and dealing with the Far
East. - Entered 3/98.
Apple's
Board of Directors should take responsibility for their company's disasters.
Sometimes it seems like the only people in the world who really want the
MacOS to die work for Apple. They license the OS, and then refuse to let
big players into the market. They won't license PowerBook designs. They
quibble over money with the licensees who are keeping their market share
from sinking even more. They drag their feet on CHRP because it means they
won't have to approve every design any more. They lose money quarter after
quarter, while other Mac hardware makers like Power Computing are in the
black. And perhaps worst of all, they sell huge chunks of their own holdings
in the company, demonstrating that even they don't really think it can
succeed. - Entered
7/97. #15 - Vote=1 - THANKS
Steve! - THANKS
Apple! As reported in the Nov. '97 issue of MacAddict magazine sj has "Revamped
Apple's board of directors." In an agressive move, Jobs ousted much
of Apple's previous board of directors, including Mike Markkula, the long-time
member who had previously wielded strong control over the board. Current
members include an impressive mix of industry leaders with experience in
marketing, sales, finance, company turn-arounds, and dealing with the Far
East. - Entered 3/98.
Apple
needs Steve Jobs to get
over it, and get back in the boat, - THANKS
Steve!, THANKS Apple! (Steve is now on the Board of Directors) -
Entered 8/97 - as
CEO. Quick! (He can again be the vision and soul of the company.)
- Entered 7/97. #16 - Vote=1 - THANKS
Steve! - THANKS
Apple! ("Apple Computer names Jobs interm chief executive NEW
YORK (AP) - Apple Computer Inc. said today it hopes to have a new chief
executive officer by year's end and disclosed that its new board has formally
named Steve Jobs interim CEO...") - Entered 9/97 -
(Yes! - Ed.)
Apple
should have a consumer advocate on the Board of Directors, someone to act
as an ombudsman for the little guys. They should also have a teacher to
look out for Apple Education's best interests. -
Entered 8/97. #17 - Vote=1
Apple
should not lie down with Microsoft. The Apple-Microsoft agreement and the
betrayal of clone partners has left me sick. I cannot see, for the life
of me, why Steve jobs thinks this is the way to bring the proper spirit
back to Apple. As Apple's identity is stripped before our very eyes, I
declare on behalf of all Apple users that we are not feeling very spirited
- not very spirited at all. -
Entered 9/97. #18 - Vote=1
Apple:
The issue of cloning has always been a controversial one. Jobs may be right
to think that clones can only cannibalize - not expand - Apple sales, but
it would be awfully sad to look back 10 years from now at the strides a
company such as Power Computing has made - and the steps it took that pushed
Apple into making better, faster, less expensive products - only to find
that the company no longer existed, that Apple forced it out of the market.
You know what goes around comes around, -and usually bites you on the ass.
It seems to me that we are just making more and more enemies. This sounds
more like a Microsoft move than an Apple move, let's hope Steve knows what
he is doing. - Entered
9/97. #19 - Vote=1
Apple:
Re Purchase of Power Computing, Inc.: Optimists will say Apple can use
Power Computing's innovations to fight Windows, sell direct & gain
market share. Pessimists will realize that Steve Jobs is simply killing
competition so he can overcharge customers again. Read my lips and repeat
after me: Competition is good. Monopoly is bad. Competition is good. Monopoly
is bad. It's true for Windows. It's true for Macintosh too. (Guess
we haven't learned our lesson yet. Huh? - But in all fairness, sj claims
he is now fighting for Apple's survival, so I guess you sometimes have
to weigh and adopt the lesser of two evils. - Ed.) - Entered
9/97. #20 - Vote=1
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